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JOHNv P. JAMIso-N, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters .Patent No. 82,417, dated September 22, 1868.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CON CERN z Be it known that I, JOHN P.JAMISON, of the city, county, and Statef'of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boots, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figurel represents a side View of a hoot complete made'in accordance with my improvement, Figure 2, a. face view of the hack leather, cut as necessary to be used in forming the leg and counter; and Figure 3 a similar view of the leather or piece cut to form the front or upper of the hoot and forward portion of the leg.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. In making bootshaving leather legs, it is a matter of considerable importance, as regards economy, to eut the skins of which -the boots, or their fronts, counters, and legs are made, to the best advantage in reference "tovwaste of stock. The 'greater the saving in this respect, the larger the number of boots that can be cut from a given number of skins. InA making such boots, it is customary to form the forward portion of the leg and front ofthe boot from a superior and more expensive quality of leather, while the back of the leg and counter may be 'made out of any inferior and less costly description. The seams that usually unite these twov parts or divisions of the hoot are run in straight lines, or thereabouts, from the front of the heel upwards, vdirectly across theankle-hone, and in cutting the two parts, they are slightly hollowed at that point to give an inward curve to the back part above the heel, which, in treeiug theboot, often causes undue'strain on the seam. Myvinventio-n aims at further economizing the construction of such boots, likewise doing away with the arrangement of the seams across the ankle-bone, which, when heavy leather is used, are apt to chafe the foot; also, facilitating the crimping of thehoot, and reducing the liability of theleather to tear in or during that process; and, furthermore, causing therboot to'hold its shape better, by diminishing the tendency to run down at the heel, and at the same time, by the forward extension of the counter, to stiifen and support the shank. To these ends, more or less, my invention'consists in an arrangement of the longitudinal seams above referred to, so as to lie in advance of the heel of the boot and in front of the ankle-bone, the same also being curved to form aforward extension of the counter. K

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A and B represent the front and back leathers of the-boot. These leathers, vvunder the system her'et'ofore'praetised, are'cut substantially-as represented by red lines in figs. 2 and 3, so that, when united, they form longitudinal seams in line with the advance portion of the heel, and crossing the ankleLbone, as shown by red line in ig. 1. Instead of thus cutting said' leathers, I'cut -them suhstau`v tially as sliownby black lines in iigs. 2 and 3, which throws the seams aup thesides o f the boot, in front of the anklebone, and, by curvatures b,- to the two leathers,.considerably in advance of the heel,itherehy producing n large forward extension of the counter c, and so, where heavy leather is used, not merely preventing chaiig of the ankle, but, in crimping the'boot, facilitating such process, andY reducing the liability to tear, by the front leather, B, being made so much narrower than usual in proportionrto the back leather, A; likewise, by reason Iof the forward extension of the counter, that stiil'ens the boot further in front, causing the boot to hold its shape better or preventits running down at the heel.

But the main advantage of this, my improvement, that is, making vthe back leather, (curved, as-at b 5,) so much wider than the front leather, B, (also curved, as at b 6,) consists in the economy of stock, as by said improvement a smaller pattern answers for the forward portion of the leg and front of the boot, which requires yto be made of a superior` and more expensive quality of leather, and the lsmaller the pattern, the easier holes in the skin lcan he avoided,rand Athe greater the number of boot-fronts, `with their leg-extensions or formations, that can becut from a single skin.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is- I y Y The arrangement of the longitudinal seam or'seams a in the boot-leg, so as to rise from the hollow ofthe shank, or thercabouts, or (when the latter is applied to the foot) in front of the Vankle-bone, thesame als()A being curved, as at 6, to admit of la forward extension of the counter, substantially as and for the purpose'or purposes herein set forth.

JOHN P. JAMISON.

I Witnesses A, Ln CLERC, Anrnnn KINNIER. 

